postmodern thoughts

Suspended Animation….. now

You have been involved in a severe accident. You are on the brink of death. Surgeons don’t have time to save your life – that should be it. Patients in Pittsburgh may find themselves the guinea pigs of a revolutionary experiment that involves replacing their blood with chilled salt water, a process that sounds more Sci-Fi than Sci-Fact

Medical researchers are experimenting with a process called induced hypothermia. The method involves draining a patient’s body of blood (if s/he hasn’t already lost a lot of it through injury) and pumping it with a chilled saline solution, so cooling it by more than 20C below the normal body temperature. It thus protects against the potential damage caused by blood or oxygen loss. The process places the patient in a state where s/he he is neither dead nor alive, buying surgeons time.

Once the injury is fixed, blood is pumped back through the veins, and the body is slowly warmed back up.

However, at the mention of the phrase, “suspended animation” one would likely think of Buck Rodgers, Aliens, (perhaps Austin Powers….) Though, if the process still sounds more Sci-Fi than Sci-Fact, it is about to begin medical trials in the USA on patients where no alternative exists. If all goes well, then scientists behind it hope to export the process globally.

About

Welcome to the webpage for Kelvin Wright.

Kelvin Wright was born in Dorset, England in 1972, the year that the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched; The Godfather was released in cinemas; the Watergate scandal began and the last manned mission to the moon (Apollo 17) took place.

The first 14 years of his life were spent living in aristocratic surroundings as his father headed the gardens of Lords, Ladies, and Royalty.

Obituary is Kelvin’s first novel and is already receiving critical support internationally. The story was born out of years of observing, reading and studying the key changes occurring within postmodern society, including globalisation, individualisation, the move towards a consumerist global economy and the changes affecting the workplace: changing working conditions, employee health and welfare, job insecurity and work place stress and anxiety, all leading to the belief that we really could do better.

He studied a Masters degree in Human Resource Management at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid.

Kelvin currently lives in Madrid, Spain, and is now working on his second novel, “Saint Aygulf”.